Harvard’s alumni association is rallying behind university president Claudine Gay amid calls she resign over her congressional testimony about antisemitism on campus.
Hundreds of members of Harvard’s faculty, as well as the university’s alumni association, are circling their wagons around the school’s president, Claudine Gay, as she faces mounting criticism and calls to resign over comments she made to Congress about antisemitism on campus.
Gay has been a target of significant backlash following her testimony to Congress on December 5 during a hearing about antisemitism on campus, in which she stated in response to a pointed line of questioning from New York Rep. Elise Stefanik that calling for a « genocide of Jews » may be a violation of the school’s code of conduct « depending on the context. »
The Harvard president appeared in the hearing next to former University of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill and MIT President Sally Kornbluth, who have also faced sharp criticism for their remarks. Magill has since resigned.
